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Dante Controller User Guide

Maximum Channels per Flow

The number of channels that can be added to a Dante multicast flow varies by device type. This is
displayed at the top of this window, and is 64 channels for the device shown above.

If you select more channels than the maximum supported channels per flow, multiple flows will be created.
For supporting devices, you can restrict flows to fewer channels if required, using the drop-down menu in
the Flow Config section.

Managing Flow Size
Multicast flows propagate through the network to every device that requests one or more of the channels in
the flow. When considering network traffic management, in a typical network where no devices actually
need all channels, it would be more advisable to create multiple flows than it would to create one flow
containing all channels.
In the first example illustrated below, one multicast flow was created, containing four channels. None of
the devices actually require all four channels, but both switches are processing four channels of traffic.
In the second example, two flows were created with two channels each. All devices are receiving the
channels they need, but the switches are processing half the traffic.

Figure 1 - Single multicast flow with all channels

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